DIY repair of cracked grout, loose shower tile - what are best long permanent status fix option? When we started sawing out the grout to regrout - tiles started...
When we started sawing out the grout to regrout - tiles started falling off revealing two materials to which tile have been adhere. Upper wall material is green. Lower wall things is white. White and green wall materials don't blend smoothly - and tile was originally applied right over the mismatched wall surface so that you can see straight tile next a slant back passage then straight again on a unusual plane. Possibly it was of late a tub with a partially wall/shelf and they added the upper wall for a shower. Shower over tub with walls and ceiling including roofline slant adjectives tiled (old farm second floor bathroom). Worst area is the wall on which the faucets and shower are attached - to be precise where we started. Roofline slant seem to disallow a shower enclosure - but I could be wrong nearly that. Not sure how to proceed from here (need expert advice). Hate to tear stale all the tile (most of which feel firmly in place) IF in that is a way to produce a long term fix minus doing so.
I enjoy to agree with DIY DOC, while a fast fix with tile glue might work (for a short time) I would worry something like moisture saturation and mold along with the palpably incorrect materials used for your walls in the first place. I reccomend demo to the studs to be not dangerous from mold problems and fix it right so you never have to verbs about it. Hey a valid excuse to remodel your tub.
Good luck. I notably recommend you remove all the destabilized (dry rot) drywall that is falling apart. Otherwise you aren't going to enjoy a long term repair. Using tile cement to put the tiles back surrounded by place might last a touch while.
The white wall material you own is most likely regular drywall (bad perception for bathroom walls where tile is applied) -- The green substance (also called greenboard) is the correct objects to use for applying tile. I recommend you remove the tile and replace the regular dry wall with greenboard where on earth you wish to apply tile.
Answers: I tile every day of my energy,and while it might be labor intensive, I'd pull the tile, the wall fabric to the studs and start over.
I haven't used GREEN board since concrete backer board become a standard, and certainly never natural, regular drywall.
Certainly choosing to not go that far, you might expect adjectives issues, even in the repairs. I'd probably not install tile on a slant that contained by effect is an upside down horizontal plane, allowing not only for gravity, but shear counterbalance. If what you describe is a minor grade adjust twice, I'd be grumbling loudly to the former owners,,,not that it would help,,,smile.
Obvious too is the commotion or whatever be used to adhere the tile, to a surface that's roughly smooth, and not porous in the sense that sponsor board is.
Long term would be great of course, but you might gross an effective repair, and subsequent week have adhacent tiles drip off.
Steven Wolf